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clamoring for the convenience of a shopping center in town. The issue became a talking point during election season. For local officials, it was a balancing act: the need to "shop local" was tempered by the idea that it was the quaint nature of the township that had drawn so many people there in the first place. The solution took the form of a municipal master plan, the town's first, that rezoned for a single shopping area on Pascack Road, centered on an 11-acre site. In this way, local officials hoped to provide for the residents' shopping needs while also keeping the commercial element tucked neatly onto a single site.
The owners of that 11-acre tract, home builders James Leone and John Durante, had bought it with different plans in mind. However, with some urging, and some concessions on the township's part as well, they agreed to change course and build a shopping center. The original anchor store, an Acme supermarket located where Fresh Grocer is today, opened in May 1960. The shopping center, which back then had a red brick exterior, was built in sections as demand for storefronts arose.
July 20, 1963 brought the grand opening of a new bank at the shopping center. It was a branch office of the First National Bank of Westwood, founded some 55 years earlier as the Pascack Valley's first bank. The new township branch was originally in a standalone building, as the photograph shows, which allowed it to have a drive-up teller window.
Burglars struck at the townshipʼs First National branch only three weeks after it opened. In August 1963, burglars climbed through a side window at the bank and broke into a small safe used for drive-up deposits, which, unlike the main safe, was not linked to the police via an alarm
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In 1960 then Mayor John Wagner remarked that the township had about 200 acres of undeveloped land left, and that if houses were to be built on that land, the population could approach 10,000. Today some 9,250 people live in the township. —Krisin Beuscher, a former editor of Pascack Press, is president of Pascack Historical Society in Park Ridge and edits its quarterly membersʼnewsletter, Relics.
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